Standard pattern reference card for Science Museum warders regalia, Standard Working Pattern 1, Pattern No OS 624, Monogram, gold embossed, for collars, approved 16 January 1929, unsigned, United Kingdom, 1929

Until 1987 the Museum’s security staff, called ‘warders’, continued to wear a uniform recalling their nineteenth-century origin as policemen.

This reference card provided the design template for the manufacture of regalia for Science Museum security staff uniform. The badges and other regalia had different designs depending on the grade of warder to make each more readily recognisable. This particular pattern was the template for museum warders to wear an 'SM' embossed monogram on their collars.